julia> 2147483647+1
2147483648

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   2147483647+1
2147483648

Was something different expected?

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:
> What's 2147483647+1 in Julia?
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> My experience with python is that it's difficult to set up an scipy
>> environment on windows. There are packaged solutions, like Anaconda[1]
>> that simplify it greatly, but it's still a 340MB download. I've
>> installed all the packages manually before and dealt with the
>> dependencies. It probably took about an hour of trial and error. My
>> install folder is 800MB
>>
>> It works well once it's up and running. I haven't had it break, but
>> I'm also afraid to update anything. Fortunately, it's a relatively
>> complete environment for what I'm using it for.
>>
>> I would not want to try and push it out to a team.
>>
>> R just works and it's package manager has never let me down. It's easy
>> to update packages and the dependencies are resolved. It's generally
>> fast enough for what I'm doing.
>>
>> I've played with Julia on and off over the past year and it's looking
>> more and more like a useful platform. There wasn't a pre-built 64-bit
>> binary as-of 6 months ago. It was released about 4 months ago. I read
>> this article yesterday that re-invigorated my interest.
>> http://www.evanmiller.org/why-im-betting-on-julia.html As a language
>> geek, it's neat to see what's really happening under the hood. It's
>> array handling is fairly clean
>> (http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/arrays/)
>>
>>
>> julia> [1 2 3] + 1
>> 1x3 Array{Int32,2}:
>>  2  3  4
>>
>> julia> [1 2 3] + [2 3 4]
>> 1x3 Array{Int32,2}:
>>  3  5  7
>>
>> This made me cringe... Probably a slightly nicer way to do it:
>>
>> julia> map(x->length(x) > 0 ? first(x) : -1, map((y) -> find((x) ->
>> x==y,[1,2,3]
>> ),[1,2,5,1]))
>>
>> 4-element Array{Int32,1}:
>>   1
>>   2
>>  -1
>>   1
>>
>> Compared to
>>
>>    (1 2 3) i. (1 2 5 1)
>> 0 1 3 0
>>
>> Sidenote: (Julia arrays are 1-based and I substituted -1 instead of
>> length for not found):
>>
>> That being said, it does have coroutines and worker processes,
>> http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/parallel-computing/
>>
>> [1] - http://continuum.io/downloads
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